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Karina Hanum Luthfia
English Literature, Universitas Negeri Semarang
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The Reintegration of Anomie Portrayed in Room by Emma Donoghue Pamella Viviana Kusnadi; Karina Hanum Luthfia
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Lite
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24256/ideas.v14i1.10575

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This study analyzes the social conditions that drove Ma, the mother in Emma Donoghue's novel Room (2010), to attempt suicide after escaping seven years of captivity. The novel is narrated from the perspective of Jack, Ma's five-year-old son, whose viewpoint frames every event, including his mother's psychological breakdown after their escape. While previous research has mostly interpreted Ma's crisis as a continuation of captivity trauma, this study argues that her breakdown is better understood through Émile Durkheim's (1897/1951) concept of anomie the collapse of normative coherence that leaves an individual without a stable social foundation. Using qualitative literary analysis, this study closely examines the post-escape sections of the novel, focusing on Ma's encounters with her family, a medical clinic, and the media. The findings suggest that the conflicting expectations imposed simultaneously by these institutions render Ma's reintegration structurally destructive rather than restorative. Her suicide attempt thus emerges not as a private act of despair but as a social fact produced by her position within a current that fails to accommodate her new identity. Her survival, however, is sustained not by institutional recovery but by the relational bond between Ma and Jack, which functions as the novel's balancing structure. This study contributes a Durkheimian sociological reading of Room, an approach not yet developed in existing literary scholarship on the novel.
The Construction of Discursive Authority of Female War Survivor Portrayed in Salt to the Sea Dianita Atika Putri; Karina Hanum Luthfia
IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature Vol. 14 No. 1 (2026): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Lite
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24256/ideas.v14i1.10739

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This paper analyzes the attainment of discursive authority of war survivors portrayed in Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea. One of the main characters, Emilia, is constructed by the narrator as a resilient young Polish woman who experiences sexual violence during World War II. However, the narrative concludes with her death in the sinking of Wilhelm Gustloff, raising questions about the limitations of female agency in war narratives. Through Susan Lanser’s feminist narratology, this study first analyzes the narrative voices employed by the war survivor. It further examines how these voices contribute to the construction of discursive authority within the novel. Furthermore, the paper explores the limitations of female discursive authority, particularly through the portrayal of Emilia’s death. Using qualitative methods, the primary data consist of narrations or utterances that represent experiences of oppression, forms of resistance, and the construction of female identity within patriarchal wartime structures. The findings reveal that Emilia’s character achieves discursive authority through personal and communal voices. However, this authority remains constrained by larger social and power structures. Emilia’s death demonstrates that obtaining voice does not necessarily guarantee complete freedom from patriarchal silencing. Therefore, this study contributes to feminist narratology by foregrounding the limitations of discursive authority in war narratives.
Co-Authors Dianita Atika Putri Pamella Viviana Kusnadi